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Ebook and Texts Archive > The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library > The history of England, during the reigns of the royal house of Stuart : wherein the errors of late histories are discover'd and corrected; with proper reflections, and several original letters from King Charles II, King James II, Oliver Cromwell, &c. As also the Lord Saville's famous forg'd letter of invitation, which brought the Scots into England in the year 1640, and gave occasion to the beginning of the civil wars. This letter being never before publish'd, led the earl of Clarendon, Bishop Burnet, Mr. Echard, Dr. Welwood, and other writers, into egregious mistakes upon this head. To all which is prefix'c, some account of the liberties taken with Clarendon's history before it came to the press, such liberties as make it doubtful, what part of it is Clarendon's, and what not. The whole collected from the most authentick memoirs, manuscript and printed

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The history of England, during the reigns of the royal house of Stuart : wherein the errors of late histories are discover'd and corrected; with proper reflections, and several original letters from King Charles II, King James II, Oliver Cromwell, &c. As also the Lord Saville's famous forg'd letter of invitation, which brought the Scots into England in the year 1640, and gave occasion to the beginning of the civil wars. This letter being never before publish'd, led the earl of Clarendon, Bishop Burnet, Mr. Echard, Dr. Welwood, and other writers, into egregious mistakes upon this head. To all which is prefix'c, some account of the liberties taken with Clarendon's history before it came to the press, such liberties as make it doubtful, what part of it is Clarendon's, and what not. The whole collected from the most authentick memoirs, manuscript and printed (MDCCXXX [1730])


Author: Oldmixon, Mr. (John), 1673-1742; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner
Subject: Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674; Great Britain -- History Stuarts, 1603-1714
Publisher: London : Printed for John Pemberton ..., Richard Ford, Richard Hett, and John Gray ..., and Thomas Cox ...
Year: 1730
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 2192831
Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation
Book contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Notes: Tight margins along the gutter of the book. Some letters of the notes in the inner margins are cut off. Also there are page number printing errors throughout the book. No text is missing.

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John Adams Library copy has signature on first leaf: "John Adams."

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894


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